45 Corporate Calamities That Found A Correlation Between Comical and Corrupt

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45 Corporate Calamities That Found A Correlation Between Comical and Corrupt

This list was a strange one emotionally. It had us flip-flopping between laughing hysterically and wanting to punch a hole in the wall — which we haven’t done since we were teenagers thanks to therapy. Reading about a cocky CEO losing billions of dollars in a single day tickled our fancies, but reading about a gold-mining company burning down people’s homes for a new mine completely enraged us. 

But you know what? This list can’t make us angry any more. Nothing can “make” us feel anything. Only we have that power. Thanks, Dr. Shirley.

Clairol

Clairol introduced their curling iron to the German market by describing it, literally, as a hot pile of cow dung. 9 LIGHT BLONDE BLOND CLAIR CLAIROL NEW NO YORK AMMONIA, OF ADDED PARABENS HEALTHY LOOKING The product was sold under its English name Mist Stick but the company didn't do enough research to realize that mist in German means manure. CRACKED.COM

Pepsi

While expanding into China, Pepsi unknowingly made a creepy promise to consumers in the form of biblical miracles. TRADE MARK PEPSI The company's popular tag line, Come alive with the Pepsi Generation was interpreted as Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead. CRACKED.COM

Quaker Oats (Again)

Quaker Oats fed kids radioactive oatmeal in the '40s and '50s. O SPRINTALLY That's according to a class action lawsuit from 1995 - apparently, Quaker Oats and MIT gave students at the Fernald State School oatmeal with radioactive iron and calcium. Quaker Oats and MIT settled out of court for $1.85 million. CRACKED.COM

Whole Foods

Whole Foods used to sell food made with prison labor. Snowdrop m or adidas NATIONAL Haystack Mountain goat cheese, sold at Whole Foods, was made by inmates and the company sold it for nearly a decade -- they stopped only when a prison reform activist wrote to the CEO. CRACKED.COM

Fast Food

EXPIRED MEAT KFC CRACKED CON In 2014, undercover reporters filmed an American-owned Shanghai factory changing the dates on expired meat before sending it to McDonald's and KFC locations in China. KFC's parent company, Yum Brands, dropped the supplier, while McDonald's used the same company but a different plant.

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Energy Drinks

Orange NO CRASH ENERGY DRINKS MEAN NO SUGAR 5-hour CRASH Oran ENERGY Some of these beverages will tell you that you won't crash Hours of energyt af

Car Manufacturers

CAR MAKERS KEEP CHEATING ON FUEL ECONOMY TESTS. Manufacturers have learned that their cars don't need good mileage on the streets- only during the tes

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45 Corporate Calamities That Found A Correlation Between Comical and Corrupt

Blackberry

In 2010, Blackberry hired actresses to flirt with men in bars. The goal was to hand the guy her Blackberry and have him enter his number. CRACKED.COM

Atari

CRACKED COM ATARI LYNX released a Marlboro-branded version of their handheld, LYNX, in Germany. It came with Marlboro Go, a dirt bike racing game, because nothing goes better with a cigarette than a dirt bike. MARLBORO ABENTEUER TEAM +

Ubisoft

LOLD CRACKED.COM TNTTTTH 1111 Ubisoft thought it was a 101 good idea to market 10 Watch Dogs by sending an unmarked beeping safe to an Australian news outlet. The inevitable bomb squad investigation found a complementary copy of the game inside, plus a hat.

American Electric Power

CRACKED YOU BREAK IT, YOU BUY IT. CHESHIRE AMERICAN EED ELECTRIC KED CORPORATION LIMIT POWER AR In 2002, American Electric Power bought out the entire town of Cheshire, Ohio due to air pollution problems caused by its smokestacks and blue plume clouds containing sulphuric acid that blanketed the area.

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Lecherous TV Execs

CRACKED MALE EXEC, BEDROOM CALENDAR: 'NUFF SAID. I had a male executive - did a calendar (shoot) at 16 - and he specifically told me he had a certain calendar month in his bedroom, recounted Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel on her podcast.

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The American Humane Association

CRACKED THE AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION IS CONSTANTLY COVERING UP ANIMAL ABUSE. In one incident, a tiger almost drowned while shooting Life of Pi, but the AHA rep was sleeping with a studio exec and was going to approve the film no matter what.

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Domestic Violence Shelter CEO

CRACKED CORPORATE CRASH & BURN DEMANDING RESPECT, DISRESPÉCTFULLY In 2020, all the people on the volunteer committee for a DV shelter quit after Kirk Ray Smith, the CEO of the organization that runs it, went on a 20- minute rant during a Zoom call, demanding to be treated like the president of a billion dollar company.

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Gambling While Drinking

CRACKED OVER $100 MILLION GAMBLED AWAY One businessman lost more than $100 million in 2007 at a chain of casinos in Las Vegas. It's said that he was given alcohol and drugs to keep him gambling.

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NFL Pyramid Scheme

CRACKED.COM In 1998, NFL player Fred Taylor handed over his $3.6 million signing bonus to his agent William Tank Black. Black then invested the money in a pyramid scheme and lost it all.

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Chisso Corporation

A Japanese chemical company polluted a bay so much, they mined the mercury from it. CRACKED COM The bay polluted by Chisso Corporation had sediment containing up to 2 kg of mercury per ton. This con- centration made mining economically viable, so the company set up a subsidi- ary to do just that.

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Barrick Gold Corporation

In 2009, the Barrick Gold Corporation helped police burn down hundreds of houses in Papua New Guinea to clear the way for gold mining operations. The

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American Apparel

In 2014 American Apparel celebrated the 4th of July by reblogging this photo on its corporate Tumblr account CRAUN americanapparel plzstic Source:.tru

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